History of medicine books

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Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness...

Author: Megan Vaughan
ISBN: 9780745678290
Format: Electronic book text
$196.68

This is a book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed...  Read More >>

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia

Charles Nicolle, Pasteur's Imperial Missionary: Typhus...

Author: Kim Pelis (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464659
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Kim Pelis uses a wide range of French and Tunisian archival materials and a close reading of Nobel Prize-winning...  Read More >>

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany,...

Author: Volker Roelcke ,  Paul Weindling
ISBN: 9781580464611
Format: Paperback
$92.27

International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial...  Read More >>

The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930

The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory...

Author: Thomas Schlich (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464581
Format: Paperback
$105.47

A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.  Read More >>

Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care

Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care

Author: David S. Jones (A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781421408019
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making...  Read More >>

Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life

Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life

Author: Marta A. Balinska ,  Professor Emeritus William H. Schneider (Customer)
ISBN: 9781580464598
Format: Paperback
$158.27

An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with...  Read More >>

John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust

John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the...

Author: Paul Weindling
ISBN: 9781580464604
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Biography of a World War II-era physician whose work was a response to the suffering of Holocaust victims, and whose...  Read More >>

The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874

The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in...

Author: Deborah Brunton
ISBN: 9781580464574
Format: Paperback
$92.27

A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales,...  Read More >>

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the...

Author: Susan Gross Solomon ,  Lion Murard
ISBN: 9781580464550
Format: Paperback
$105.47

New perspectives on the history of twentieth century public health in Europe.  Read More >>

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:: New Science in an Old Country

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh...

Author: Christopher Lawrence
ISBN: 9781580464567
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry,...  Read More >>

Adrenaline

Adrenaline

Author: Brian B. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780674050884
Format: Hardback
$74.95

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Rise and Fall of American Medical Empire

Rise and Fall of American Medical Empire

Author: Robert A. Linden
ISBN: 9781934716083
Format: Paperback
$50.03

There are four major dilemmas at work in the rapid decline of the United States' healthcare system: the disappearing...  Read More >>

An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Great Mortality Among the Troops at St. Domingo

An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Great Mortality...

Author: Hector McLean
ISBN: 9785518421547
Format: Paperback
$50.22

With practical remarks on the Fever of this island. And directions, for the conduct of europeans on their first...  Read More >>

Philadelphia Chromosome

Philadelphia Chromosome

Author: Jessica Wapner ,  Robert A Weinberg
ISBN: 9781615190676
Format: Hardback
$68.51

"""This book draws extensively from interviews [the author] conducted with those who lived this story. Chronic myeloid...  Read More >>

Flora Scotica

Flora Scotica

Author: John Lightfoot
ISBN: 9785518837409
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides....  Read More >>

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over...

Author: Owen Whooley
ISBN: 9780226017464
Format: Hardback
$185.95

In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. In this title,...  Read More >>

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over...

Author: Owen Whooley
ISBN: 9780226017631
Format: Paperback
$61.95

In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. In this title,...  Read More >>

Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe

Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to...

Author: Luke DeMaitre
ISBN: 9780275984854
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This unique examination of medieval medicine as detailed in physician's manuals of the period reveals a more sophisticated...  Read More >>

Frankincense & Myrrh: Through the Ages, and a complete guide to their use in herbalism and aromatherapy today

Frankincense & Myrrh: Through the Ages, and a complete...

Author: Martin Watt ,  Wanda Sellar
ISBN: 9780091955731
Format: Paperback
$25.00

The story of frankincense and myrrh runs in tandem with man's evolution.  Read More >>

Medecins Et Medecines Dans l'Histoire Du Japon: Aventures Intellectuelles Entre La Chine Et l'Occident

Medecins Et Medecines Dans l'Histoire Du Japon: Aventures...

Author: Mieko Mace ,  Professor Marcel Detienne
ISBN: 9782251722184
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Si le Japon contemporain nous semble proche, ce n'est pas seulement a cause d'une occidentalisation initiee a la...  Read More >>

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